This handbook brings together the knowledge on juvenile imprisonment to develop a global, synthesized view of the impact of imprisonment on children and young people. There are a growing number of scholars around the world who have conducted in-depth, qualitative research inside of youth prisons, and about young people incarcerated in adult prisons, and yet this research has never been synthesized or compiled. This book is organized around several core themes including: conditions of confinement, relationships in confinement, gender/sexuality and identity, perspectives on juvenile facility staff, reentry from youth prisons, young people's experiences in adult prisons, and new models and perspectives on juvenile imprisonment. This handbook seeks to educate students, scholars, and policymakers about the role of incarceration in young people's lives, from an empirically-informed, critical, and global perspective.

This handbook brings together the knowledge on juvenile imprisonment to develop a global, synthesized view of the impact of imprisonment on children and young people. There are a growing number of scholars around the world who have conducted in-depth, qualitative research inside of youth prisons, and about young people incarcerated in adult prisons, and yet this research has never been synthesized or compiled. This book is organized around several core themes including: conditions of confinement, relationships in confinement, gender/sexuality and identity, perspectives on juvenile facility staff, reentry from youth prisons, young people’s experiences in adult prisons, and new models and perspectives on juvenile imprisonment. This handbook seeks to educate students, scholars, and policymakers about the role of incarceration in young people’s lives, from an empirically-informed, critical, and global perspective.

Foreword, Professor Manfred Nowak. 1. Introduction, Alexandra Cox and Laura S. Abrams.- 2. Self-Isolation May Feel Like Jail—It’s Nothing Compared to Youth Prison, Hernán Carvente-Martinez.- 3. Children and Young People in Custody in England and Wales – Rights and Wrongs, Laura Janes.- 4. Everyday Violence in El Redentor Specialized Care Center in Bogotá, Colombia, Laura Liévano-Karim and Amy E. Ritterbusch.- 5. Doing Time: Young People and the Rhetoric of Juvenile Justice in Ghana, Kofi E. Boakye and Thomas D. Akoensi .- 6. The Rebirth of Delinquent: Adult-Children: Criminal Capacity, Socio-Economic Systems and the Malleability of Penality of Child Delinquency in India, Shailesh Kumar.- 7. Juvenile Deprivation of Liberty in Brazil: Discretion, Expansion and Deterioration, Rafael Barreto Souza.- 8. “I wanna be somebody by the time I turn 25”: Narratives of Pathways into Crime and Reentry Expectations among Young Men in Germany and the United States, Michaela Soyer and Janina L. Selzer.- 9. State Property, an excerpt from A Stone of Hope: A Memoir, Jim St. Germain.- 10. Boredom: A Key Experience of Youth Imprisonment, Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson.- 11. Friendship in the Juvenile Correctional Institution, Anne Nurse.- 12. Juvenile Facility Staff: Research, Policy, and Practice, Alexandra Cox.- 13. Straight and Narrow: Girls, Sexualities, and the Youth Justice System, Lisa Pasko.- 14. “This Place Saved My Life”: The Limits of Christian Redemption Narratives at a Juvenile Detention Facility for Girls, Mary Thomas- 15. Horizontal Surveillance and Therapeutic Governance of Institutionalized Girls, Carla P. Davis.- 16. Hypermasculinity in Interaction: Affective Practices, Resistance And Vulnerability in a Swedish Youth Prison, Anna Franzén.- 17. Incarcerated Young Men and Boys: Trauma, Masculinity, and the Need for Trauma-Informed, Gender-Sensitive Correctional Care, Nina Vaswani, Carla Cesaroni, and Matthew Maycock.- 18. The Expectations and Challenges of Youth Reentry, Elizabeth Panuccio.- 19. “Nothing’s Changed but Me”: Reintegration Plans Meet the Inner City, Jamie J. Fader.- 20. Young Women and Desistance: Finding a Net to Fall Back On, Laura S. Abrams and Diane J. Terry.- 21. My Shame, Christian Branscombe.- 22. The Pains of Life Imprisonment During Late Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood, Serena Wright, Susie Hulley, and Ben Crewe.- 23. Surviving Life: How Youth Adapt to Life Sentences in Adult Prisons, Kaylyn Canlione and Laura S. Abrams.- 24. Experiencing the Death Penalty as a Child in Malawi: The Story of Henry Dickson, Alexious Kamangila and Linda Kitenge.- 25. The Pitfalls of Separating Youth in Prison: A Critique of Age-Segregated Incarceration, Hedi Viterbo.- 26. Towards Transformation: The Youth Justice Movement in the U.S. on Ending the Youth Prison Model, Liz Ryan.- 27. Critical Reflections on Education For Children in Youth Justice Custody, Caroline Lanskey.- 28. Transforming Youth Justice Inside and Out, Alexander Schneider and VincentSchiraldi.